Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 51
The members of this family held so firmly together in their opinions, that they would believe in no other.
Who acts: members · What happens: hold, believe, opine · To what, where: opinions, other
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (members), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 members | det |
| 2 | members | member | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 held | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 family | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 members | nmod |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 together | advmod |
| 8 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 9 together | advmod |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 held | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 opinions | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 opinions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | opinions | opinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 held | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 believe | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 believe | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 believe | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 believe | aux |
| 17 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 held | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 other | case |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 believe | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the members of this family | members's opinions | together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in opinion=Location | |||
| 2 | believe | would | members = member | no other | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | opine | members = member | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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